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THE CHINA MAIL BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR SUPPLEMENT, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1849.

F.R.GABBOTT&Co.,Ltd.

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(INCORPORATED IN HONGKONG).

P.O. BOX 232

HONG KONG

Branches At

SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN & PEIPING.

EXPORTERS

OF

DEPARTMENTAL STORE, SPECIALITY & GIFT

SHOP MERCHANDISE

MANUFACTURES, HANDICRAFTS, PRODUCE

AND BULK LINES

CABLE ADDRESS: "GABOCO" HONGKONG

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Engineering Section:

Labour-Saving Devices

Significant trends revealed” in the engineering section of the British In-

dustries Fair (Earls Court and Olympia, London, and' Castle Brom wich, Birmingham) are those associated with, the saving of labour and the utilisation in industry of semi-skilled labour.

The use of all forms of mechanical or semi- mechanical handling appliances, for instance, is increasing at a remarkable rate among the engineering, exhibits which will be displayed at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.

Special Skills

and a consequent desire to make every mechanical or electrical de- vice na fool-proof as possible: this. together with the shortage of highly skilled labour, has led to great developments tra making nil forms of mechanism'safer to

Power Driven Tools

There is a peculiar appropria- | can also observe the methods em-operate. teness and significance in the ployed in its manufacture, and how fact that the display will be seen. the latest discoveries of selencs at Birmingham; for it was in are being used to increase the that city, and its neighbourhood efficiency of production. that the applications of mechani- cal power to engineering indus- trial production were first really developed, and it is this category of engineering activity that ly chiefly shown at the Fair.

Other engineering exhibitions are held in Britain, at various times and places, but most of them are devotedl to specifle branches of the industry, such as

engineering, radio marine

en-

The demand for greater pro- luction, too, has led to the in- troduction of many new power. driven huud tools, the design of which is undergoing constant im- As an instance of how a whole range of scientifle knowledge antprovement; and much more at- tention is being paid also, in the for the benefit of a single clas of machines, to the comfort and cor- special skills are brought together design of many of the largoe product, there can be few botvenience of the operator. ter examples than the manufac-button controls are one manifes ture of what is broadly describtation of this tendency, but it is ed us 'hollowware," a class of

other to be observed in many

for

Push-

illu-

gineering, and machine tools. At product which is always much in directions, such as the size ant the British industries Fair, how-viidence at the Fair. Its produc- positioning of operating handles, ever, the commercial and ins of the metallurgist, the press-tool minating the work, and the st tion requires the combined efforts

special arrangements tria! buyer has the best oppor-maker, the chemist, experts in tomatie removal of fumes, dust tunity of seeing how the produc- lubricants and tive capacity due to engineering slon, and a host of other special- power-transmis-

and swart. developments can be, and is, a ists, whose share in the finished plied to the improvement of al-

Two

contradictory seemingly article are vital though they may tendencies--which, however, are most every type of article. He

not be obvious.

not really 'contradictory in prac Improvements in the productee have been noticeable since the war, and still exert very tion of ductile sheet metals have

potent influence; namely, the made it possible to make deeper growth of standardisation on tha drawings with fewer operations; Improvements in the tools used have led to increased out put and reduced the cost per

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CHUN AH METAL WORKS FACTORY

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BRAND

No. 386 Castle Peak Road,

Tel. 56338, Kowloon, H.K.

Cable add: "CHUNAH”

We specialise in the manufacture of Eyolets, Press button, Leather Button, Cops for flashlight & motor- car lamp bulbs, eyelets for radio and other metal

articles.

We welcome customers to order our goods for export. orders accepted for all kinds of metal wares.

Also

ENQUIRIES SOLICITED:

one hand, and, on the other, an increasing readiness to undertake work that is speciil or 'unusual Both tendencies may be seen well exemplified at the Fair. Stand ardisation; in Britain's industry, however, has never meant the enforced adoption of sizes and proportions and practices, against the wishes and Judgment of the

picce; improvements in vitreous enamels and other finishes have increased the durability, and add ed to the attractive appearance of the product; und so on through every stage of design and manu- facture, each development contri- buting its quota. The same pro- eess of advancement can be traced principle of the British Standards in the making of plastle articles, of hand and power tools, electric Institution, ever since its founda

tion, never to attempt to stand- appliances, and a score of other ardise anything except in response branches of the numerous indus-

year at the Fair.

Industries and trades concerned, because it has been a cardinal

to a direct request from the in- tries which are represented each dustries or users; hence the standardisation that has been Amongst the mechanical or evolved has been a natural de- semi-mechanical handling appll-velopment.

The engineering display at the ances on display are power hoists,

offers a more self-propelled trucks, and the Fair probably many forms of conveyors which varied group of "British Stands - -

ard" articles than is to be seen are being made and applied to- day on a greater scale than ever anywhere else at one time; but before.

This is a natural result the number of exhibits of entire- of the need to increase produc- ly special mechines and appli- tion in a world which is experiances, simultaneously displayed, encing everywhere a shortage of proves that standardisation need man-power, and in which there not and does not prevent the exer- in design. Is a growing objection to do by cise of originality handl ony arduous work for Moreover, the number of arms which a machine can be bought who are prepared to make any or constructed. Coupled with type of special machine a cu this tendency is a growing awar- tomer may want, and to work to eness of the folly of taking un- the finest limits in doing so, 18 necessary risk of personal injury, increasing steadily.

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